Using crazy and clever tools of their trade, they bend, twist, hammer, and bounce on huge metal beams until they arrive at the desired shape - actions that you control.
When they go rogue from society and commandeer a massive factory to build their new alphabet, the viewer is invited to join them in their work. Our five little heroes are a delightful crew who have a tendency for pratfalls and a talent for creativity. The animated scenes - and Numberlys is probably made up of a good 50-60% CGI animation - are utterly euphoric, on a Pixar level of quality and expressiveness. You can turn off the curiously Russian-accented voiceover for the narrated segments, should you want to read it for yourself or aloud to someone else. Numberlys screenshotĪs the app plays, the action switches between silent movie-style “caption cards,” which narrate the Numberlys’ tale, and the animated scenes. It’s a pivotal decision that inspires them to create the first alphabet, an action that will have major ramifications for their world. In this drab but fascinating world, we’re introduced to five characters who grow tired of their humdrum existence and decide that they need something better than numbers to express themselves. Numbers are used for everything, including names, objects, and places. In this invented world, there are only numbers. Imagine the world of Metropolis, if it were inhabited by adorable little round-headed creatures with big, expressive eyes, who know nothing of letters or words.
Numberlys is a perfect melding of their glorious animation and the inventive ways they make the reader part of the story. I have no idea how they do it, but I hope they never stop. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, and The Numberlys is her picture book debut.It’s magical the way that Moonbot Studios, creators of The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, imbue brilliant creativity and pure joy into everything they create. Christina joined the legion of Moonbots after studying illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design. Talk to William Joyce and see upcoming work at on Twitter and Instagram.Ĭhristina Ellis is an illustrator, telling fantastic stories through her characters and their worlds. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Award–winning short film, to name a few). William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick (The Guardians series, Dinosaur Bob series, George Shrinks, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Exactly what our heroes didn’t even know they were missing.Īnd when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen…Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!īased on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot’s Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray. Twenty-six letters-and they were beautiful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers… Morris Lessmore comes an alphabet tale extraordinaire! From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
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